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Advocacy Notes

Review the latest on Georgia's ESSA application, recently submitted. Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education is a non-partisan advocacy group with a long history of support for public education in Georgia. Check out their Top Ten Issues for 2017.

Tanisha Jones: $500 to fund "Social InJustUs," which will include a field trip to the King Center for 30 high school students and purchase of a video camera for students to create PSAs and other media connected to a school-wide anti-bullying campaign.

Amanda Montgomery: $400 to fund "A Kids Life in Atlanta: 1864," which will include a field trip for 85 fourth graders to visit Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park to conduct place-based writing.

Maya Woodall: $500 to fund Google Cardboard Virtual Reality devices and a Ricoh 360-degree digital camera for 110 eighth graders to use VR as a springboard for their writing.

State Testing Resources:Check out sample ELA items in the assessment guides (EOGandEOC) and study/resource guides (EOGandEOC). Students can log on to Experience Online to see sample questions representing the evidence-based reading and writing section of the test.

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Since 1923, the Georgia Council of Teachers of English has been Georgia's professional home for English Language Arts teachers from pre-K to university. GCTE is the Georgia affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Membership is open to teachers, administrators, college faculty, education majors, and others interested in the teaching of English Language Arts.